Tree or shrub protector.



Patented- Mar. 20, 1900..

J. A. CONRAD.

TREE 0R SHRUB PROTECTOR.

(Application filed July 6, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH A. CONRAD, OF DE LAND, FLORIDA.

' TREE OR. SHRUB PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 645,890, dated March 20, 1900.

Application filed July 6, 1899. $e1lal No. 722,948. N modell) To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. CONRAD, a citizen of the United States, residing at De Land, in the county of Volusia and State of Florida, have invented a certain new and useful Tree or Shrub Protector, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relatesto tree and shrub protectors.

The object'of the invention is to provide a tent or cover for trees and shrubs to protect them from freezing and from inclement weather generally, as well as for inclosing them for spraying and fumigating purposes- The invention consists in combinations hereinafter described and claimed. In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation showing my improved tree and shrub protector full spread for enveloping and protecting a tree. Fig. 2 is also an elevation showing the same as reeved for inclosing a shorter or lower tree or shrub. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the tent drawn together and in'position to be let down over a tree o'r to be drawn to one side for allowing rainto fall upon the tree or for the removal and detachment of the tent from the hoisting-rope.

lisapost or mast suitably set in the ground at a distance from the tree or plant to be protected, and to this mast is attached, through mast-rings 2 2 2, a bracket consisting of supporting-arms 4 4 and braces 5 5. The supporting-arms extend about over the center of the tree and carry at their outer extremities sheaves or pulleys 6 6. Leading over the top pulley 6 and over a pulley 7 at the top of the mast is a halyard 8, connected through the medium of an eye or hook 9 with wall-elevating cords 1O 10, which pass through eyes 11 at the top and midway to the bottom of the tent. The tent itself consists of a body of canvas or other suitable fabric stretched upon or around hoops or rings 12 12 12. The top or upper end of the tent is suspended from eye or gromet formed in the the lower pulley 6 through the medium of a halyard 13, connected with the center of the top of the tent. forced or strengthened by radial cords or ropes 14, and the halyard 13 is connected with an center of the top of the tent.

The top of the tent is rein- When the tent is in position, the bottom will be held firmly in place by means of tentpins 15 15, as shown in the drawings.

In operation, the tent being suspended, as shown in Fig. 3, the operator gives way on halyard 8 and the walls of the'tent fall by gravity over and around the tree or shrub, as

shown in Fig. 1.

If the tent is to cover a short or low shrub,

. both the halyards 8 and 13 are given out,.so

as mist the top and walls of the tent drop into the position shown in Fig. 2.

Having described .my invention, what I claim as new,.'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'A'tree-protector involving the combination of a suitable mast or pole, abracket having two supporting-arms connected with the pole oneabove another, a pulley or sheave in the extremity of each of the arms, a collapsible or foldable tent, .a plurality of distendinghoops attached to the walls of the tent, a halyard connected with the top of the tent and leading around the sheave in extremity of the lower arm of the bracket for bodily raising and lowering the tent and for holding it in an elevated position, elevating-cords attached to the lower hoop, and a second halyard extending over sheave in the upper arm of the bracket for independently raising and lowering the lower end of the tent, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH A. CONRAD. Witnesses:

S. B. WILSON, J. D. WILSON. 

